Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Utopian Elites, and fellow college students...

Symantec has claimed that Mac OS X users are at risk from malware attacks, and that this risk will only get worse. The questions is: Why are they telling us this?
http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/

Enterprising hackers have discovered that because the new motion sensor returns reasonably accurate measurements to Mac OS X, it can be used to do some cool tricks...
http://www.wired.com/

If a tree falls in Texas, what's it worth?
http://www.dallasnews.com/

Consequently, some utopian elites forgot the free-market origins of their own riches and why they had the freedom and leisure to be so censorious of their own culture. Maybe they were guilty over our bounty. One way of enjoying an upscale American lifestyle, while simultaneously feeling pretty terrible about it, is to castigate the history and global conduct of the United States in the abstract — without ever giving up much in the concrete.
http://www.victorhanson.com/

5 Comments:

Blogger Michael and Natalie said...

so i started reading the symantec article, and im pretty sure i understood what was being discussed at first, but then all these weird words like path 404 and stuff started appearing and i was like, what? this is in no way a criticism of bryan, but am i the only one who was having a hard time with the article? SHOULD i know that path 404 is?

Tue Mar 22, 11:23:00 AM GMT-7  
Blogger Michael and Natalie said...

correction: by PATH 404 i meant PORT 404

Tue Mar 22, 11:26:00 AM GMT-7  
Blogger Matt said...

Off topic here, but I have to share.

I was surfing our friends site at provopulse.com. As I was reading the site I stumbled across this charming comment.

"TO ALL BYU STUDENTS.
Submitted by An anonymous coward on Tue, 03/22/2005 - 10:35pm.
There are people on this site, waiting to report you to the honor code office.


You aren't REALLY anonymous. Want to know how easily I could back track your comments that you thought were "anonymously" posted?
I get a copy of ProvoPulse's server logs. Mason has no earthly reason to give them to me, but because I said please he does.

I do a reverse DNS search to find out what ISP is hosting your internet connection. For the sake of the discussion, we'll say you are using a T1 line that is running into your apartment complex.

Because your apartment complex is BYU approved, I tell them that unless they tell me who was using the IP address that posted the comment on 3/22 that they will lose their BYU approval. So they don't lose the millions in guaranteed revenue by losing their housing approval, they give up your name in a heartbeat.

I go back to the Honor Code office, pull up your student records and place you on whatever kind of hold it is that they place violators of the BYU Honor Code. Your educational career is over with.
You think you are really posting anonymously, think again. If I really had a stick up my a** and I was working in the Honor Office, I could make every BYU student who has ever posted an anonymous comment about how they made out with a girl in their apartment at 12:02 in the early AM very unhappy. We aren't talking about getting disqualified from elections here, we're talking full on expulsion here. And you thought you were posting anonymously."

This is the kind of holier-than-thou, witch-hunting attitude that really pisses me off about BYU and Utah in general. Even if this did happen, I would be happy to bring such a case to the ACLU -- even though they are a bunch of crazy bastards. Can you believe the audacity of this person to threaten such a thing against people posting on a website that is not affiliated with BYU in any way?!
What a stupid bastard!

Tue Mar 22, 11:02:00 PM GMT-7  
Blogger Matt said...

I wish I could just find the person who posted that. I would just walk up to him and cast LIGHTNING BOLT!!! LIGHTNING BOLT!!! LIGHTNING BOLT!!!


for more info see:
http://aaronlarsencall.blogspot.com/2005/03/lightning-bolt-lightning-bolt_21.html

Wed Mar 23, 01:02:00 AM GMT-7  
Blogger bryan said...

i usually refrain from emotional responses... but gosh dangit... i couldnt resist that time... :/

so i made a comment on provopulse

heres a link to the thread if youre interested :)

http://provopulse.com/home/?q=node/view/864#comment

Wed Mar 23, 09:59:00 AM GMT-7  

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